| Down at Backwater junction rolling down the line
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| In the dark early morning I heard the one-forty-nine
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| I was walking down the highway, needed somewhere to go
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| A lady laid beside me and she invited me home
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| She led me cold, tired and hungry down the backwater road
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| In a house on the corner looking over the track
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| I woke up with a fever and a pain in my back
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| She was lying there beside me, my fever started to grow
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| Had a funny feeling but the lady said no
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| My lover needs a doctor down the Backwater Road
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| Whatcha lookin' for, whatcha lookin' for
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| Lady do you know what cha' lookin' for
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| Was I wrong to play along?
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| Lady was I right or lady was I wrong?
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| Backwater doctor, you’ve got me breathing in time
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| It’s ten-thirty in the morning and I’m feeling alright
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| I went back to my lady but I wasn’t to know
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| Lady left this morning and she’s not coming home
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| I was cold when she left me down the Backwater Road |